What is Indigenous Knowledge?
Subtitle: Voices from the Academy (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780815331575
Subjects: Pre-school & kindergarten; Primary / junior schools; Social Science; Philosophy Of Anthropology; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; General; Popular Culture - General; Education / General; Anthropology - General; Ethnoscience
First sentence: The term, indigenous, and thus the concept of indigenous knowledge has often been associated in the Western context with the primitive, the wild, the natural.
Description: Ladislaus M. Semali and Joe L. Kincheloe's edited book, What is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy not only exposes the fault lines of modernist grand narratives, but also illuminates, in a vivid and direct way, what it means to come to subjectivity in the margins. The international panel of contributors from both industrialized and developing countries, led by Semali and Kincheloe, injects a dramatic dynamic into the analysis of knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields.